Social Media's Impact in Thailand's Politics

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  • Arun Kumar Oraon  Center for Indo-Pacific Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Keywords:

Social, Media's, Impact, Politics, Different, Mechanization

Abstract

The 21st century is known by different names such as, Information age, communication age satellite communication age and also a cyber and networking age. Social media gives various types of knowledge, information and opinions, and thoughts to build different types of knowledge society. The new Internet term, called worldwide web is based on cyber media that illustrated the information revolution in the age of globalization. The Canadian media sociologist Marshall Mcluhan termed it as

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2018-04-30

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Volume 4, Issue 7, March-April-2018

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Arun Kumar Oraon, " Social Media's Impact in Thailand's Politics, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 4, Issue 7, pp.723-730, March-April-2018.